Hungarian National Philharmonic & Dance: Budapest Spring Festival

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Enjoy "An Evening with the Hungarian National Philharmonic on the Anniversary of Bartók’s Birth" in Budapest.

Zoltán Kocsis recently provided a new attire for The Wooden Prince. “Bartók’s natural poetry and orchestration stand before us in all their glory. Kocsis’s punctual reading, which makes all details in the complex score audible, will offer the ultimate proof (should anyone still need any) that this ballet is in no way inferior to the more sensationally ‘modern’ Miraculous Mandarin, and its philosophy is even more profound than that of the later pantomime; there is not a single moment when we can forget it is a drama we are listening to,” wrote a reviewer of the new recording of the piece.

This is not the first time Tamás Juronics has created choreography for The Wooden Prince. As he said apropos of an earlier concept, “when I work on a classic, I always follow the same procedure. I first strip away almost everything, until the structure becomes visible, and then I apply the new visual world and kinetic structure on the lines that emerge. The final outcome of The Wooden Prince, the fairy‐tale idyll, is anything but unambiguous for me. On the contrary, I find it very dubious, a conscious self‐delusion, if you like, on the part of the author. The Fairy does not represent the world of everyday love, this is something else. This is the freedom of the artist, elevation, soaring, the torrent of colours. Everything that the other pole, the real world, is incapable of.”

The first part of the concert features the music of a special ballet rarely performed in Hungary, Stravinsky’s Orpheus from 1947.

Conductor: Zoltán Kocsis
Choreographer: Tamás Juronics
Featuring: Szeged Contemporary Dance Company

A joint première with the Szeged Contemporary Dance Company and the National Dance Theatre.